Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-05-13
BILL kYE'S BLASTED PASS.
The War between the Press and the
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HUDSON. Wis, April Al arrived
here last week just little ahead of
the biting blasts of the |. c. b. BY
the |. c. Is. | mean to imply the Inter
state Commission Il II.
noticed while en- route that the new
law had stimulated travel to "A wonder
full degree. On my way from the
South. where | was during the winter.
/ noticed that the sluggish arteries of
trade had already begun to palpitate
and crowds of people filled the cars OH
every tran.
l said to myself, Congress has at
last solved this great question of
financial stringency and broken the
great dam that held capital captive. On
the Piedmont Air Line, people crushed
each other together in IA mad attempt
to travel. On the Richmond d Dan
VILE and f. L. V. q g.. as well rs the
l.. Il N, humanity crowded day coach
rs and sleepers till the walls cracked.
az touiu HOl Gtl Il SlCtD-
ng-car at ALL and | had to telegraph
twenty-fOur hours ahead TO get one
from Chicago. Everywhere. as far as
the eye could reach. there seemed to
be wild and restless desire to get
somewhere else. Several companies
have to put on extra coaches to carry
the eager tourists.
! arrived here just IN time to witness
the last moments of Northwestern
pass as its spirit took its flight. Had
postponed my journey for single day
| would have been too late.
1t was still young. Life was before
it. Barley quarter of the span of its
life had been passed when it curled up
and expired. 1t was cute little
thing, with an olive complexion and
large. mournful, upper-case eyes.
\ few weeks ago | noticed that it
did not look well. 1t did not complain
of illness or pain. but ! thought de-
tected cond tion on its back. and 80
| hurried home in order to DC here in
case it should expire. As soon As the
conductor looked at it and felt its pulse.
he said that he could do nothing for it.
The Interstate Commerce law is one of
those things that will have to be tried
before we can pass upon it, | presume.
though some claim that it is going to
be very difficult to pass upon it even
then. This thought occurred TO me
Just after the gate-keeper pushed me
back yesterday and told me TO 90 and
get my ticket
then first realized what it was TO be
rudely ground under the heel of cold
corporation that is devoid of heart,
devod of soul, devoid of noble thoughts.
devoid of refined instincts. devoid of
kind impulses, devoid of milk of hui
man kindness, devoid of bowels of
compassion.
From force of habit | walked up to
the gate with a joyous nod and the old
password, only TO be coldly repulsed
~ 'hN hIi'u OOuHCct vi tHiN Hcdl lIcS>,
'oullesS. impulseless. milkless and
bowelless corporal on.
But the railroads will get the worst
Of it. for know that travel on some of
the lines has fallen off since April |.
] can see it already. ! have fallen of
myself since the first of the month and
thor. u, II do tho can,a
That is not all. A friend of mine
who runs paper. and whose pas, got
the hollow horn on Friday last. says
that his columns are now open to
those who wish To complain of the
management of this road. He states
that the first hot box will be duly
chronicled. and that he will no longer
close his eyes TO the wrongs we have
heretofore suffered at the hands Of this
unjust and ruthless vampire that has
been sapping the very foundation of
our institutions and smearing its long.
dark trail with the remnants of our
best milch COWS, reluctantly paving for
them the price set at the tail of an un-
just and enervating trial by corrupt,
yenal and dwelling jurc.
He says that "the M has come for
the press to arise and assert itself. "
and when the train runs Oh the track
and Kills lot of people who have led
exemplary lives. ms paper will here
after tell why and how it was done.
! Heretofore he has not had sufficient
help in the office. he ella ms. and he
frequently ran short of type, but now
he is going to g We all the particulars of
the fl rst smasl-up that occurs on the
road f the paper falls into the relent-
less nav of sherifl's sale on the fol-
lowing week.
asked railroad official of ST. Paul
Yesterday what effect the new law
would have on the ight rates in the
Northwest. and he said he thought
they would not be much higher than